Steve Rushin

At it's best, Rushin's Air and Space was far superior to almost any column writing Reilly has done...

Toward the end, Rushin's column was at its best, mediocre and at its worst, unreadable...

 

Rushin was <i>unreadable?</i> I missed that one.

 

Rushin's column about the beauty of sports exemplifying the "dreams come true" cliche by writing the lead story for SI in the basement of his childhood home after his hometown Twins won game 7 of the World Series was to me his finest work.

 

That commencement speech was simply spectacularly good.

 

Then you must have missed his Lobo In Love columns . . . . . . . .

Excellent commencement. Enviable for those of us who had a horrid speaker.

 

Reilly might not have been unreadable, but the guy certainly didn't report nearly enough for my taste. Some weeks it seemed like it was hacked out in 15 minutes.

 

Wow, that speech is perfect. Thanks for posting.

 

Oh, yeah, he was -- mostly in the last few years.

And you missed more than one of those "unreadable" columns.

 

Sounds like he struck paydirt leaving SI -- getting to write about everything, including sports.



Edit: I mean paydirt in terms of a writer's dream, not necessarily in terms of paycheck.

 

Sorry boys, but he's overrated.

My opinion.

 

Still say I welcome, eagerly, the books he writes. Hope he doesn't do one on anagrams, though. The least readable of the unreadables down the stretch at SI.

 

Anybody know what Jeff Perlman's up to these days? [/Biff]